Abstract

In order to realize the historical task of independence and liberation of the Chinese nation, the Communist Party of China, since its founding in1921, led the Chinese people continue to struggle. In this process, according to the basic theory of Marxism-Leninism, the Communist Party of China created Chinese society and the ideological and theoretical system that Chinese revolution needs. Among the system, the concept "class" went into the horizon of the Communist Party of China with its unique strength. Also, the class theory which derived from "class" concept has been widely used in the analysis of social problems, and in a very long period of time, this theory has become the mainstream ideology of the Communist Party of china. During the process of China’s revolution, the emergence and development of "class" concept and its theory, have made important contributions to the Chinese Communist Party in it’s analysis of social condition, it’s estimation of China revolutionary changes, it’s unity of more social forces and it’s shaping the theory of Party and so on. However, when the using of "class" concept did not according to the changes of social and political situation, it will inevitably produce some impractical problems, such as simplified "class struggle". Therefore, in order to observe how the’"class" concept and it’s theory form evolve in the history of Chinese Communist Party, the author is to do a special research about the formation, development and extension of "class" concept in the modern Chinese society, so that to analyze it’s significance and enlightenment to the development of the Chinese Communist Party’s theory.This article adopting the method of Historical semantic, which rarely used in the field of the history of Chinese Communist Party, combining history and comments, objectively analyzing the development path of the "class" concept from early meaning of economics, politics, to the meaning which contains economic, politic, thought, consciousness and so on, and the understanding and interpretation of the Chinese Communist Party in different historical context on the basis of digging first-hand data as deep as possible, so as to show how this concept interacts with the practice of Chinese revolution, plays an important role and produces what lessons.